take one's turn

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take one's turn (third-person singular simple present takes one's turn, present participle taking one's turn, simple past took one's turn, past participle taken one's turn)

  1. (intransitive) To assume a place in a sequence of successions; to be one of a group that takes turns.
    I took my turn at the wheel.
    You can take your turn now.
    • 1570, Thomas Naogeorgus, translated by Barnabe Googe, The Popish Kingdome:
      Then doth the joyfull feast of John the Baptist take his turne.

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